Top 100 No Man Can Quotes
#1. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
Barry Long
#2. No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room ...
Marsilio Ficino
#3. No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
Napoleon Hill
#5. As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.
Thomas Sydenham
#6. No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
Murray Leinster
#8. Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.
George S. Clason
#9. No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.
Napoleon Hill
#10. There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth ... no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God
Joseph Fielding Smith
#11. We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#12. No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.
Sally Stanford
#13. No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
#14. It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Robert Emmet
#16. What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#17. My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens
#18. Enter ye in at the astrait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#19. No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#20. It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about
what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
George MacDonald
#21. Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Janos Bolyai
#23. There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done.
Hilda Doolittle
#25. As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
Sydney J. Harris
#26. No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
Austin O'Malley
#28. No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. No man can observe you as I have observed you and not know that it was a matter of conscience with you, but I am afraid, my friend, that it is one of the blunders of virtue." The
Stephen Crane
#30. 8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Anonymous
#32. No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog.
Gene Hill
#33. Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art ... I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
Quentin Crisp
#34. If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.
Rebecca West
#35. No man can use his brain to think for another.
Ayn Rand
#36. No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
James Cash Penney
#37. No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
Will Rogers
#38. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
Daniel Webster
#39. It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
John Ruskin
#40. I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
Chief Joseph
#41. No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
George MacDonald
#42. But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.
Brandi L. Bates
#43. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.
Pope Pius XI
#44. I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them. Restraining
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#45. I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#46. Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.
Ramon Llull
#47. Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God.
Erika Johansen
#48. Love is a strange creature that no man can understand
Lisa C. Miller
#52. No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
Jeremy Taylor
#53. No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.
Robert Jordan
#54. No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
#55. I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.
Lawrence James
#56. No man can rob us of our Will - no man can lord it over that! LXXXIV
Epictetus
#57. No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
Nelson Rockefeller
#58. What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
J.C. Ryle
#59. No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
Charles Grandison Finney
#60. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#61. No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Fisher Ames
#62. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.
George Eliot
#63. No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Seneca The Younger
#64. No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do, or how he may change the current of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action.
Charles M. Sheldon
#66. A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. No man can be renewed without as real and true a manifestation of the Holy Spirit's energy as he felt at first,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous - dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.
James Baldwin
#69. No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
Charles Baudelaire
#70. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
#72. I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
Mark Twain
#73. Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames.
Betsy Schow
#75. No man can ever admire a woman the way she admires herself.
Meeta Ahluwalia
#76. How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.
Paul Hoffman
#77. No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
William Faulkner
#79. No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.
Lajos Kossuth
#80. Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which ...
William Butler Yeats
#82. No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.
John Calvin
#83. No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Buster Keaton
#84. A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.
George R R Martin
#85. Whatever's going to happen was already written and no man can change that.
Kareem Abdul Rahman
#86. No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
James Madison
#87. A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
William Hazlitt
#89. No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
Carl Jung
#90. Stand with me till the end," he said. "Love me. Believe in me. No man can ask more of his woman.
Flora Speer
#91. He has one hand over her mound and works his fingers as if he was playing guitar, making beautiful music with her tiny button. He serenades her with a love song that only his fingers know how to pick- a tune that no man can duplicate.
Jane Emery
#93. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
Jostein Gaarder
#94. No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
#95. That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
Robin Hobb
#96. The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Adam Weishaupt
#97. No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Friends may be enemies, and enemies, friends. Lacking the ability to see into another's mind and read the motivations that lie within, no man can know for sure.
Shaun Myandee
#99. Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.
Joseph Parker
#100. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.
John Cassian
